"Your Majesty, Chang'an is the Xijing of the Great Qin Dynasty after all. If such a change is made, wouldn't it be a mixture of fish and dragons and the market is in chaos?"

Prime Minister Xiao Yu summoned the emperor's Zichen Hall and opposed the emperor's new policy. He thought that this was too inappropriate and was simply a nonsense.

"I just think that breaking the isolation of Fangjie and the limitations of the market will help make Chang'an City active. Look at the current Chang'an City, it is invigorated and dead. In the past, there were hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an City, but now? It's less than 100,000."

A giant city that was designed to accommodate millions of residents now has a population of less than 100,000.

Only Xicheng was a little more popular. Dongcheng, which used to be known as Donggui, was found dead in Dongcheng because a large number of old nobles and former officials participated in the plot to rebellion, or exiled because they were implicated, which made Dongcheng District silent.

As for the southern city where the people lived in the past, only the areas close to the north lived, while the urban areas further south were empty. Some areas were even empty since the city was built, and no private houses had been built. Many people in Chang'an simply used it as wheat fields, rice fields or vegetable gardens, where rice and vegetables were grown.

There are also a large number of Buddhist temples and Taoist temples that occupy many yard areas.

Luo Cheng told Xiao Yu very directly that if you continue like this, Chang'an City will only die.

He did not want the empire's Xijing to die. It was the largest city in the western part of the Qin Dynasty. Even if the imperial court is now in Luoyang, Tokyo, and Xijing is just a accompanying capital, he still hopes to build Chang'an City into a core military center in the west and an economic center in the west.

The entire Heshuo and Guanlong roads are concentrated here, and even connecting Bahan, Jiannan, Hedong, Henan and other places.

Because Chang'an City is in a corner, it is no longer suitable for being the capital of the world during the period of great unification, especially now. It is inevitable to choose Luoyang as the capital.

But Chang'an City also has many advantages, so it is still necessary to be the center of the west.

The center of gravity of the world moves eastward, which is an inevitable historical trend. The importance of the unification of the world will be highlighted. Jianghan, Huanghuai, and Jiangnan will all become new tax-related places. The taxes will be transferred to Luoyang more conveniently through the canal, but they are extremely unfavorable to transfer to Chang'an.

Not to mention, Luoyang is the capital, and government orders are more convenient to be transmitted to all parts of the world, but the Guanzhong area is not even enough to provide for Chang'an. If it becomes the center of the world, it will be restricted everywhere.

No matter what the emperor said, Xiao Yu still believed that breaking the streets was too outrageous, and even believed that the court now valued business too much was not a good thing, and that the order of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce should not be chaotic.

"The court should appropriately curb industry and commerce." Xiao Yu said bluntly.

Luo Cheng laughed.

"Xiao Xiang, you know that when the imperial court is not fighting, the imperial guards in the Northern Yamen alone will have to spend 20 million jin a year, and the inner Yamen still has to spend 5 million jin. Although the soldiers in the Southern Yamen are used to farm, the imperial court will also have to invest at least 5 million jin a year. After all, it will be a rough figure to start with 30 million jin a year."

"And any war, even on a small scale, will have military expenditure of hundreds of thousands or millions. If it is a war that mobilizes more than 100,000 people, the military expenditure will not be stopped. Do you know what the budgetary military expenditure of the imperial court to fight the Tuyuhun battle? It will mobilize military civilians and men, consume money, food, materials, and weapons, as well as build castles, and after-war pensions and after-war, etc., will cost at least 30 million yuan. This is the lowest budget. If the war cannot be decided quickly, the expenditure will continue to increase."

Without industry and commerce, the court would not have had so much tax income. Without money, it would not have been able to support so many soldiers. Without elite troops, how could they defend the frontier and defeat the enemy?

All of this is chained together.

One link of disconnection brings a chain reaction.

Xiao Yu still had the old idea, saying that scholars, farmers, industry and commerce were talking about the need to curb industry and commerce, but he couldn't see that the Qin Dynasty has recovered so quickly and has such strong strength, all the dependence on industry and commerce.

For example, Xiao Yu proposed to abolish the salt tax more than once, but he could not see that the salt tax has earned more than 30 million yuan a year, and it is still growing rapidly every year.

Luo Cheng cannot abolish the salt tax with such a large amount of money.

If Xiao Yu said, it would seem good to suppress industry and commerce and return to the era of the Sui Dynasty where industry and commerce had no taxes and only collected rents and mediocre adjustments, but in fact, when there was a little engineering labor and war, all the burden would be overwhelming to the people.

It is precisely because of this that the Sui Dynasty seemed extremely wealthy and powerful, but it collapsed in an Eastern Expedition. The essential reason was that the Sui Dynasty's system was unreasonable, especially its tax system.

Those who control wealth in the world do not bear the tax responsibilities they should bear, but ordinary people who are difficult to achieve food and clothing are almost completely responsible for the country's taxes.

As a result, the court was rich, the nobles, officials, landlords and powerful people were all rich, but the people had no surplus.

Now Xiao Yu still says that he wants to be retro and reasonable, but pretends not to see those essential problems.

These systems of the Qin Dynasty can be said to be the foundation of the Qin Dynasty. Anyone who wants to shake and change these systems is to shake the foundation of the Qin Dynasty.

Hou Mo Chen Yi stood up without hesitation.

"Your Majesty, I think Mr. Xiao is the prime minister, but he is as pedantic as a scholar. If he continues to live in the political affairs hall, it will be a great trouble for the country."

The priest attacked another prime minister with such a heavy voice, and the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became so serious.

Wen Qibo wanted to speak for Xiao Yu, but at this time even Du Yan came out and stepped on it.

"Xiao Yu's words are indeed unrealistic, too pedantic, and have lost the form of a prime minister."

The emperor, who was sitting on the dragon throne, did not speak out at this time.

At this time, Prince Ming, the Right Pushe of Shangshu, came out to ease the atmosphere. "I think that Your Majesty wants to implement the new policy in Chang'an is a pilot. As for whether it is good or bad, you can wait a year or two to see the results. As for suppressing industry and commerce, I think it's still a bit too much."

If Xiao Yu was a smart person, he should see the direction of the wind at this time. When he immediately apologized to the emperor for his mistakes, the matter might have passed. But his temper has always been stubborn. Back then, he never compromised and bowed to the emperor for his uncle Yang Guang, let alone he thought he was right at all.

"Your Majesty, please think twice before you act!"

But the emperor ignored Xiao Yu, obviously not accepting his advice, and the ministers accused him one after another. Xiao Yu felt discouraged for a moment and was angry, so he simply resigned from the palace.

"Xiao Xiang, it is normal for different political views to be different, and there is no need to quit the emperor with a disagreement." Luo Cheng finally spoke out.

But these words did not comfort Xiao Yu at all, but instead made him even more determined and he wanted to quit.

Luo Cheng advised him a few times, but Xiao Yu had no intention of retreating.

"Since Xiao Yu's three words are sealed, I will not be able to do anything about it." Luo Cheng no longer persuaded him, but directly agreed, "Let me do this, I will now grant Xiao Yu a fief of hundreds of miles west of Qinghai Lake, a fief of thousands of households, and a title of Xuande Duke."

Xuande was originally the name of the Xihai County Xiaxuande County, one of the four counties established by Yang Guang after he destroyed Tuyuhun. It was located south of Qilian Mountains and west of Qinghai Lake. Now the emperor set aside a hundred miles from it and granted Xiao Yu the title of Xuande.

The title is still the Duke of the State.

"Add the Prince's Young Tutor!"

The young tutor of the crown prince was a second-rank, but he was just a false title. After apart from the prime minister, the emperor did not even leave a real position for him, nor did he let him go to the fiefdom to become a vassal.

"I Xiao Yu pays homage to the emperor and receive the imperial edict, thank me!" Xiao Yu became angry and couldn't even pull back the eight cows. He directly thanked him for the imperial edict, without leaving any room for turning around.

Immediately, he took off his Qilin Talisman, took off his Liang Guan, put down his jade scepter, and directly withdrew from the Zichen Palace.

Xiao Yu, the Minister of the Secretariat, was eliminated.
Chapter completed!